The Industry being stubborn

[milkyjoe]

Carl2291 said:
Fine, here you go. Backup. 2D Mario from SNES.

http://www.gamerankings.com/snes/519824-super-mario-world/index.html
http://www.gamerankings.com/snes/588740-super-mario-world-2-yoshis-island/index.html

2D mario from Wii.

http://www.gamerankings.com/wii/960544-new-super-mario-bros-wii/index.html

Haha, that's funny, and if you want me to shutup and stop pointing out some hard truths and turning the mirror back at you, you'll have to do better than that kiddo. Nobody uses gamerankings or metacritic for anything pre PS2 era because there are literally just a handfull of reviews available for each game what with the internet only really taking over in that era, before that everything was magazine based, hell, metacritic don't even bother having sections pre N64/PS1 because the review samples are so small (e.g. the N64 only has 89 of it's games with enough reviews to be listed on metacritic). To back that up with actual fact, the two SNES games have 8 reviews between them. NSMBWii has over six times as many on it's own on gamerankings, and almost ten times as many on metacritic. There could be some 8/10 reviews for the two SNES games in defunct magazines stuck at the bottom of a box in somebodies dusty attic that have never been uploaded, but we don't know that.

It's kind of like saying that FFXIII has a decent metascore now when there are some pretty mediocre reviews waiting to be uploaded... You know, the ones they felt the need to defend the game against...